Academic Positions
2025- Associate Professor, Department of Society and Politics, Aalborg University.
2019-2024. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
2016-2019. PhD-Student, University of Southern Denmark.
Dissertation defended 17/12/2019. Committee: Robert Klemmensen (chair), Alice Moseley, Asmus Olsen.
Awards, grants, and fellowships
Carlsberg Semper Ardens Accelerate grant: POLSAFE - Can Police Presence Decrease Perceived Safety? DKK 6.969.891 (933.017 EUR). 2025.
The Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for Outstanding Research on Performance in Public Organizations. 2024.
Co‑investigator, Improving Reading Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students. (w. Nanna Ahrensberg, Morten Hjortskov, Jakob Holm, and PI: Simon Calmar Andersen). Novo Nordisk Fonden. DKK 20.000.000 (2.677.259 EUR). 2021.
Selected conference presentations, invited talks, and organization of activities
Microdecisions and Macroinequality in Education. paper presented at the EGPA conference in Glasgow. 2025.
Reviving Implementation Reserch in Public Administration. Pre‑conference activity at the Public Management Research Conference, Utrecht University planned with Simon Calmar Andersen, Jakob Holm, and Morten Hjortskov Larsen. 2023.
The Effect of Police Leadership on Misconduct. paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago. 2023.
Does Performance Information Receive Political Attention? paper presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Arizona State University. 2022.
Performance and Accountability. Invited talk at the Future of Behavioral Public Administration Conference, University of Copenhagen. 2019.
Teaching
Politics, Implementation, and Evaluation, Aalborg University, 2026.
Management lab, Aalborg University, 2025.
Performance management, Aalborg University, 2025.
Innovation lab, Aalborg University, 2025, 2026.
Coercive Institutions, Aarhus University, 2023, 2024.
Policy Evaluation lecturing and tutorials, Aarhus University, 2023.
Behavioral Public Administration and Meta-Science, Aarhus University, 2022.
Public Administration Tutorials, Aarhus University, 2020, 2022.
Policy Evaluation Tutorials, Aarhus University, 2021, 2022.
Performance Management in the Public Sector, University of Southern Denmark, 2019.
Innovation and Leadership in Public Organizations, University of Southern Denmark, 2018.
Advanced Public Administration (three lectures), University of Southern Denmark, 2017, 2018.
Public Health Administration (three lectures), University of Southern Denmark, 2017.
Methods 3 supervision (10 assignments), University of Southern Denmark, 2016.
Selected outreach
TV2 News, 26.10.2024. Kriminalitet og den amerikanske valgkamp.
DR Nyhederne, 24.10.2023. Kritik af Den Uafhængige Politiklagemyndighed.
DR Nyhederne, 30.10.2023. Politiet lytter til kritikken.
Politiken, 21.09.2023. Debatindlæg: Vi har brug for en transparensrevolution i politiet.
videnskab.dk, 18.09.2023. Forsker: To årsager til, at politiet handler voldeligt.